Deutsche Bahn : Why can the Federal government bring the car in drive you must

A solution for the many problems of the German railway (DB) is not given to the Federal Minister of transport. Who "expect 300 new measures" that fell from the sky, do not understand the rail System, said Andreas Scheuer (CSU) in Berlin on Thursday. So the Minister was able to meet after the second, the morning crisis with the head of the group, although not 300 news present, but at least a Five-point Plan of the railway Board. At the same time, Scheuer warned against too high expectations. A lot of work is still to be done. 30. January you want to meet, therefore, in the same round again. Then it should go to the most difficult of topics, the funding and structure of the largest state-owned company. "We have the political will to invest in infrastructure is massive," added Andreas Scheuer.

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This desire to take an active railway policy of the Federal court speaks of the Minister of transport and the Federal government. The Federal government as the sole owner of the DB to take his responsibility is not true, said Kay Scheller, the President of the court of auditors, on Thursday in Berlin. Rather, it will look in Berlin sitting on the sidelines, as the objectives of the railway reform 25 years ago, could be missed, is to bring more passenger and freight traffic to Rail and to relieve the Federal budget. "Here is a constitutional mandate is left," said Scheller.

Instead, the path act in the world as a "universal group" in 140 countries, and 513 of 700 subsidiary companies have their headquarters abroad, 43 per cent of the railway revenue would be achieved beyond the limit. "The railway in Germany is not profiting from it", complained the Supreme audit authority. These delays, quality deficiencies, lack of staff and ailing infrastructure.

The IPO of DB AG had been a decade off. It was the policy to set the strategic course, called for Scheller. "It is incomprehensible that the Federal government has also ten years after the aborted IPO, no concept what they would like to have for a car and how much he," said the court President. "It is the highest railway."

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That train-in-chief, Richard Lutz, and the management team seemed to have detected group, the signs of the times, should your Five-point Plan indicate that was released after the Meeting with Scheuer In terms of content, he offers a lot of well-Known and Passed: more staff, new trains, higher investment, better Service.

New is, specifically, that the DB will set 2019 and around 22 000 employees. As early as 2018, there were 24 000. Minus the departures, the number of employees in the past year increased by about 9000. Worldwide 000 Employees in the group, of these, 200 000 in Germany, 320. Increased, in particular, the staff in the workshops, to be able to defective trains faster again make available. Also train drivers to be searched. Because the labor market is empty, employees can be retrained in about ten months.

in Addition, at the four other most polluted stretches of – about at the intersection of Hamburg, between Fulda and Mannheim or on the line Würzburg–Nürnberg – special teams to ensure that congestion and delays are reduced in this plan "corridors". For example, by the construction site management is improved, or the punctual departure of the trains organized differently. "Step by step we are getting better, especially in the case of punctuality," said railway chief Lutz. In the past year, every fourth long-distance train was late. 2019 is expected to increase the punctuality of DB long-distance services by an average of 1.6 percentage points to 76.5 percent. Originally Lutz as early as 2018, wanted to reach more than 82 percent.

As Scheuer Lutz dampened the expectations: "it is Clear that there is a button to press, and everything will be better," he said. The utilisation of the rail network since the rail reform in 1994 have greatly increased, at the same time, more and more customers took advantage of the railway. But the investment paid off. "In the next few months we will get new trains and the seat increase in the ICEs and intercity space of around 20 000 places." Five per cent more ICE-trains – daily for at least 225 – 2019 is ready for use. Together with the Federal government, € 10.7 billion will be invested in the network had 1.3 billion more than in the previous year, said Lutz.

where will the money come from

The question is, where in the future the money for the necessary investment should come from, is still unanswered. With its debt by 20 billion euros in the railway group approaches the by the Minister of Finance set the Limit. From its own resources the railroad wants to invest in the next five years, five billion euros, in addition to trains and rail network, four billion euros of which are not yet funded, to hear how in the circles of the Supervisory Board.

The Considerations to be separated from the profitable foreign subsidiary, Arriva, or Parts of the logistics division Schenker, encounter – unlike in Parts of the black-red coalition – the court of auditors on sympathy. The auditors criticise the "proliferation of international business activity", of the DB, and the use of financial resources "to foreign countries and train foreign transactions". Also, the Long-discussed separation of network and operation must be seriously examined, said the court, the President of Scheller. Transport Minister, Scheuer rejects Arriva-sale is not, in principle, but warns against quick shots.

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